Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile (2000-2006) and UN Special Envoy for Climate Change (2008-2010), is President of the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo and a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. He is currently Professor at Large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
Efforts by the EU and the members of the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean States have set the groundwork the world’s strongest bi-regional partnership on climate change. The EU-CELAC summi… read more
Latin American countries can take the lead on framing a new climate change agreement at the UN's upcoming climate conference in Lima. Indeed, by enacting laws that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions whil… read more
Chile is South America’s most prosperous and, until now, one of its most stable countries. But Chileans are demanding new rights and refusing to accept the restrictions imposed by the country’s past d… read more
The financial crisis will be uppermost in the minds of many at this week’s United Nations climate change conference in Poznan, Poland. Yet, however high the price of a global bail-out, we know one thin… read more
